The historical context of the public sector culture -- Privatization, corporatization, bureaucracies, and change -- Perspectives on institutional theory -- Hope, frustration, and despair-some reflections -- Psychological contract, organizational citizenship, and double bind -- Stress and coping...

This paper addresses the question whether increased mobility of capital enhances public-sector modernisation. Public-sector modernisation is modelled as the accumulation of knowledge (or another accumulated production factor) that serves as an input in the government's production of a...